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Ford to invest $4.7B to improve manufacturing plants & add 6,200 UAW employees to workforce

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billion to add over 6,200 union jobs to its manufacturing plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. Missouri: In Missouri, Ford plans to make a $95 million investment. Ford plans to invest $3.7 Besides adding 6,200 permanent Union Auto Workers (UAW) employees, Ford also expects its $3.7 by the end of 2026. Besides the $3.7

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Johnson Controls providing AGM batteries for Start-Stop F-150

Green Car Congress

Johnson Controls is providing its advanced Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) battery technology to the all-new 2015 Ford F-150; this is Ford Motor Company’s first truck with Auto Start-Stop. AGM batteries used in a Start-Stop system help reduce fuel consumption as the engine shuts off when the vehicle comes to a stop in traffic or at a red light.

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GMC unwraps 2024 Canyon AT4X AEV off-road pickup

Baua Electric

Common Motors’ top class truck emblem mentioned the 2024 GMC Canyon AT4X AEV version boasts an too much 1.5-inch GMC offered the AEV package deal at the light-duty Sierra full-size pickup in July 2022 and the heavy-duty Sierra in Would possibly. The Canyon is constructed at GM’s Wentzville Meeting plant in Missouri.

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans

Charged EVs

This reporter recalls a presentation from the long-vanished British firm Modec, a startup making light delivery vans, which said even back in 2009 that fleet managers would see a lifetime payback on what were then very expensive BEV cargo vans. None of the “import” brands currently offer light commercial EVs in the US.

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Smith Electric Vehicles US Partners with Clean Fuels Ohio Program To Target $10M in Federal Funding

Green Car Congress

SEV-US plans to participate in similar funding programs in California, Missouri, New York and Texas. Through its US partner, The Tanfield Group Plc, SEV US Corp is also working with Ford Motor Company to electrify the Ford Transit Connect as a battery electric vehicle light-duty van scheduled for production in 2010.

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

This reporter recalls a presentation from the long-vanished British firm Modec, a startup making light delivery vans, which said even back in 2009 that fleet managers would see a lifetime payback on what were then very expensive BEV cargo vans. None of the “import” brands currently offer light commercial EVs in the US.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. In 2013, he installed lithium batteries, and in 2017, he replaced the stalled-out DC motor with an AC version. “I’d done a conversion with lead acid batteries in 1982 on a 1971 VW Beetle,” Garver continued. “My